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View Poll Results: What non-Win32 DomII platforms are important to you:
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Mac OS X
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January 9th, 2006, 02:51 AM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
"Dominions III will be available on a wide range of popular operating systems, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Solaris will no longer be supported."
Incase some haden't seen this. From a press release Oct 18, 2004.
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January 9th, 2006, 03:20 PM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
Not Solaris? Dang, I wanted to buy a Sun before they went bankrupt 
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January 9th, 2006, 04:40 PM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
Only Windows, but I know that it would be easier to run automated scripts on Linux. Gandalf Parker and his random maps are quite an example in that part...  |
January 10th, 2006, 09:34 AM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
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Only Windows, but I know that it would be easier to run automated scripts on Linux. Gandalf Parker and his random maps are quite an example in that part...
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Actually, we are in an age where triple-platform "scripting" tools (Mac/Win/Linux) are powerful and easily available. Many of them are free and/or open source.
My favorite is Python. Others include Java, REALBasic, and C#/Mono. With the cygwin Unix environment for Windows, one can add all the other usual favorites: Perl, Ruby, shell scripts, Tcl, PHP, and who knows how many others.
Not all those are "scripting" per se, but all could be used for writing and running small programs of this kind on all 3 platforms. |
January 10th, 2006, 12:06 PM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
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djo said:My favorite is Python. Others include Java, REALBasic, and C#/Mono. With the cygwin Unix environment for Windows, one can add all the other usual favorites: Perl, Ruby, shell scripts, Tcl, PHP, and who knows how many others.
Not all those are "scripting" per se, but all could be used for writing and running small programs of this kind on all 3 platforms.
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You may want to add XBasic to the list (at least for Linux and Windows, dunno if there's a Mac version)
And what do you need cygwin for? There are "native" version available for Windows.
And with Tcl/Tk you needn't worry about the GUI .. works the same on all OS. You can even wrap the app into an .exe, even cross-platform. (At least, that's what I read from the freewrap how-to. Haven't tried it, though. Might turn out trickier as advertised, as usual )
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January 10th, 2006, 12:37 PM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
well, I voted for Solaris, just because its cool having dominions support it - not that i've personally ever heard of anyone using it to play... |
January 10th, 2006, 08:01 PM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
You really do need to put a Windows option if you want most people to be able to respond.
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January 10th, 2006, 11:29 AM
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Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do
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Not Solaris? Dang, I wanted to buy a Sun before they went bankrupt
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Don't worry, OpenSolaris is proceeding well. There is even a PPC version in the works 
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